View the birthplace of civilization: the Middle East, site of the world's first villages, towns and cities, from the hills of Turkey to the plains of Iraq. They were crucibles of invention and innovation-turbo-charging the pace of progress.
What would the Civil Rights movement in the USA have been like if Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been motivating change? How does the legacy of the American Civil War still affect the American democracy?
3/12 • Butterfly Effect • 2016 • History
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles looks at the winners, losers and survivors of the great Bronze Age collapse, a regional catastrophe that wiped out the hard-won achievements of civilisation in the eastern Mediterranean about 3,000 years ago. In the new age of iron, civilisation would re-emerge, tempered in the flames of conflict, tougher and more resilient than ever before.
2/6 • Ancient Worlds • 2010 • History
In the first episode, Roberts introduces the idea that genetic analysis suggests that all modern humans are descended from Africans.
1/5 • The Incredible Human Journey • History
The decisions of only a handful of individuals determined the course of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. What transpired over a few hours would have an impact on the local community, Russia, Europe and the globe.
7/12 • Butterfly Effect • 2016 • History
Dr. Alice Roberts investigates the possible routes taken by humans to reach the Americas.
5/5 • The Incredible Human Journey • History
The story of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, of Rommel's war against the British in North Africa and of the horrors of the murder of Russian Jews - sometimes known as the Holocaust by Bullets.
3/6 • Apocalypse: The Second World War • 2009 • History
